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205961) Twenty after midnight: a novel
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Three friends, Aurora, a scientist and researcher, Antero, an avant-garde artist turned publicist, and Emiliano, a journalist, once worked together on a digital fanzine that became worshiped all over Brazil. Now, nearly two decades later, the death of the fourth member of the group reconnects them. The novel explores lives trapped between unfulfilled promises and apocalyptic yearnings, capturing the generation that grew up in the midst of the beginning...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An account of the life of the influential jazz singer and civil rights advocate shares insights into her contributions as an African-American artist, drawing on inside sources to discuss her creative process and challenge misperceptions about her character.
"Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and a pioneer of women's and civil rights....
205963) The cat who could read backwards
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Former award winning news reporter Jim Qwilleran is assigned to the art world as his new news beat. When a murderer sicks a knife in the neck of a local gallery owner and goes berserk among the works on show, Qwilleran gets help from his Siamese cat solving the mystery.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany. He was the chief of the German General Staff, co-architect with Erich Ludendorff of Germany's Eastern Front victories and its nearly war-winning Western Front offensives, and he did not hesitate in his answer. "The American infantry," he said. He made it even more specific, telling the reporter that the final...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Many have pointed out the psychological benefits of clearing out the clutter in our surroundings. But what do we do with our emotional clutter - the psychological versions of the jam-packed closet or impenetrable garage? As we shut away and try to hide old pains and traumas we create toxic patterns. Author Donald Altman uses modern neuroscience to outline how habits and patterns can be modified with only a few minutes of attention daily. Altman first...
205967) Teaming with bacteria: the organic gardener's guide to endophytic bacteria and the rhizophagy cycle
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to research conducted over the last few decades, we know that many (and probably all) plants get a significant portion of their nutrients by attracting endophytic bacteria. Gardeners and small-scale growers need to know about endophytic bacteria and the rhizophagy cycle because they have profound implications for how they raise plants. Knowing about them will help readers increase their plant's health and productivity"--
Author
Publisher
Sterling Epicure
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Meet the award winners, visionaries, and scofflaws leading the homebrew revolution. How did they get started? What equipment do they use? Where do they find storage space? What are their hopping techniques, yeast strategies, and aging methods? How do they keep temperatures constant without sophisticated climate controls? What's their best recipe? Get to know the Stylists who hammer home perfect takes on time-honored beers; the Hop Pack who boldly...
205969) When my heart joins the thousand
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Alvie Fitz doesn't fit in, and she doesn't care. She's spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy. If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she'll be legally emancipated. Free. But if she fails, she'll become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home. All she wants is to be left alone to spend time with her friend,...
205971) The Banty House
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the fading town of Rooster, Texas, all that's really left is a service station, a church... and the Banty House, a long-ago Depression-era brothel. For more than seventy-five years, Betsy, Connie, and Kate Carson have called their mama's house a home. The three eccentric sisters get by just fine with their homemade jams and jellies, a little moonshine on the side, and big hearts always open to strangers. Like Ginger Andrews. An abandoned teen...
205973) Red Joan
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, a woman unmasked in 1999, at age 87, as the KGB's longest-serving British spy, Red Joan centers on the deeply conflicted life of a brilliant young physicist during the Second World War...Risking both career and conscience, leaking information to the Soviets, but struggling to maintain her own semblance of morality, Joan is caught at a crossroads in which all paths lead to the same end-game: the deployment...
205974) First born: a novel / Will Dean
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Molly Raven lives a quiet, structured life in London, finding comfort in security and routine. Her identical twin Katie, living in New York, is the exact opposite: outgoing, spontaneous, and adventurous. But when Molly hears that Katie has died, possibly murdered, she is thrown into unfamiliar territory. As terrifying as it is, she knows she must travel across the ocean and find out what happened. But as she tracks her twin’s final movements,...
205975) Girls on the line
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Luli and Yun, raised in an orphanage to age sixteen, work together in a factory until Yun, pregnant, disappears and Luli must confront the dangers of the outside world to find her. Includes facts about China's One-Child Policy and its effects.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
Description
"Early feminist Ernestine Rose, more famous in her time than Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Susan B. Anthony, has been undeservedly forgotten. During the 1850s, Rose was an outstanding orator for women's rights in the United States who became known as "the Queen of the platform." Yet despite her successes and close friendships with other activists, she would gradually be erased from history for being a foreigner, a radical, and, of most concern to her...
205978) Epidemic of the living dead
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
THEY ARE WHAT THEY EAT -- It starts with infected needles. It spreads like a plague. Soon the town of Chapel Grove, Pennsylvania, is overrun with cannibalistic corpses. Some are taken down with a bullet to the brain. Others, torched like kindling. But a few have survived-inside a maternity ward . . . THEY'RE EATING FOR TWO NOW -- Detective Bill Curtis manages to rescue his pregnant wife Lauren from the ward in the nick of time. But the other pregnant...
205979) European folk art designs
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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